Archive for December, 2009

Borderlands killed my soldier, Rolando, once and for all. He was level 32 and I had finally found him a set of 4 weapons with elemental damage that I liked.

He had a caustic shotgun that turned bandits to slime in no time flat.  He had a shocking machine gun that depleted shields and dealt heavy damage at an ungodly rate.  His SMG did 4x fire damage and was great for settings those hard-to-see critters ablaze.  His new shocking sniper rifle was adequate and thoroughly useful.

I’d just put two points in a skill that regenerated health for him after every kill.  His class mod increased the magazine size for every weapon for everyone in the game by over a quarter.  He was a nice guy but he didn’t take no shit from no skags.  He will be missed.

Corrupted character file in Borderlands

Yes, I saved the game and no, I didn’t interrupt it.  I was playing with someone else at the time and that character (Brock) is intact, while mine is pushing up daisies.  And to make matters worse, WordPress is being a total bitchass about the formatting of this post. Reported the bug on the Gearbox forums.

As much as I hate to bump Miss Scarlett from the top of the page, I’ve got a rant to spit out in lieu of doing real work.

Google has just added a URL shortener service (and provided shortcuts to it from their Toolbar and other products) named goo.gl and it will “compete” with services such at bit.ly and others.  The reason for these URL shorteners is that some things give you very few characters to send URLs and the long URLs (especially those auto generated by content management systems) don’t leave much room for anything else. (more…)